The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried ... material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America and left a crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which ...

An asteroid that space experts formerly determined had a small chance of colliding with Earth has been seen for the first time. Nasa said scientists used the Webb Space Telescope to capture more ...

Detected in December by a telescope in Chile, the space rock was flagged for its size—it’s 130 to 300 feet long, big enough to wipe out a city—and a trajectory that put it on track to possibly hit ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.

Spring is having one helluva time freeing itself from the cobwebs of winter. While meteorological narratives indicate April can run as hot and cold as any other month out there, one might anticipate ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...